NASA and the Department of Defense practice recovery procedures for an abort scenario in the upcoming Artemis 2 mission.

Artemis 1, the first mission of NASA's Artemis program, will use the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a 26-day mission to lunar orbit and back.

To do this, the Artemis 1 mission features 24 cameras, eight mounted to the SLS and 16 on Orion. These cameras are largely meant to help engineers document mission-critical events, such as liftoff ...

The first mission of NASA's ambitious Artemis program produced some beautiful images. When the 322-foot-tall (98 meters) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was rolled out to the pad at Launch ...

The Artemis I mission launched at 1:47 a.m. Wednesday morning November 16th, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B. Launch viewed from Harbortown Marina on Merritt Island.The last quarter of ...

Orion’s view of the Moon on December 5, the 20th day of the mission. Photo: NASA NASA’s Artemis 1 mission concluded with Orion’s immaculate splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday ...

During the mission’s 25.5-day duration, Orion is expected to travel about 1.3 million miles—farther than any other spacecraft designed for humans has ever flown, according to NASA.

The inaugural launch will send the $20.4 billion Orion on a 25-day journey to the Moon and back, in a mission that will require the uncrewed capsule to travel a total distance of 1.3 million miles ...

Moonikin Campos, Helga and Zohar flew around the moon in December 2022 to help NASA get its Orion spacecraft ready to carry Artemis astronauts to lunar realms a few years from now.

NASA is preparing for its coveted Artemis I mission, which is expected to launch from the Cape no earlier than August 29 with a two-hour window beginning at 7:33amCT. This historic mission will be ...

Artemis 1 should be considered a “test flight,” Parson says. That means even if some conditions aren’t ideal, they’re not likely to abort the mission mid-flight. At a NASA press conference ...